The news broke that a railroad car, loaded with pure sodium, had just derailed and was spilling its contents. A television reporter called me for an explanation of why firefighters were not allowed to ...

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For centuries, the best chemists in the world struggled every day to create the molecules that your own cells manufacture every second. Then they discovered how one group of atoms let them make stuff ...

Does your love of the periodic table extend to tying 200,000 tiny knots? That was the project that Jane Stewart of Surrey, England, undertook last summer. To honor the International Year of the ...

One hundred fifty years after Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his system for neatly arranging the elements, the periodic table it gave birth to hangs in every chemistry classroom in the ...

The UN is marking 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. The table itself is widely considered to be one of the greatest scientific achievements in human history.